Alcorn v. City of Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term, 1886, No. 179. The action was a scire facias sur, a municipal claim for paving the centre of Broad street, in front of a lot of ground belonging to the defendant. The claim was for $603.52. The defendant pleaded specially that the paving for which claim was filed was- not an original improvement, but a substitute for an improvement already made.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term, 1886, No. 179. The action was a scire facias sur, a municipal claim for paving the centre of Broad street, in front of a lot of ground belonging to the defendant. The claim was for $603.52. The defendant pleaded specially that the paving for which claim was filed was- not an original improvement, but a substitute for an improvement already made. The facts of the case as they appeared on the trial before Mitchell, J., are sufficiently set out in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The defendant presented the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
William W. Alcorn and others, owners of properties situate on Broad street, between Federal street and Passyunk avenue, prayed the councils of the city to cause the paving of the middle of the street, the part which had never been paved and had been used as a boulevard or drive, with. Belgian blocks ; and represented that said part was a nuisance, the dust there*from in the summer time being intolerable to the residents on either side, and at other seasons said part was almost impassable on account of mud. Thereupon, it seems, an ordinance was passed providing for the paving of said central…
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